Microsoft has created some customized Windows VHDs with the purpose of allowing web designers to test websites in Internet Explorer 10, 9, 8 and 7, for Free for 30 days:

You can download the virtual machine images from this website:

• Free Virtual Machines From IE8 to MS Edge

From the site:

1. Download the SFX and all RAR files for the VM (smaller VMs may not have files with RAR extension). In each set below that contains a
   split archive, the provided text file (.txt) contains URLs to all
   files in the set, and this can be used directly with the 'wget'
   command in Linux. From the terminal, enter wget -i [URL TO TEXT FILE].
   For Windows XP single file downloads, use wget [URL TO DOWNLOAD FILE]
   instead.

Example 1:

wget -i https://az412801.vo.msecnd.net/vhd/IEKitV1_Final/VirtualBox/Linux/IE8_Win7/IE8.Win7.For.LinuxVirtualBox_2.txt

Example 2:

wget https://az412801.vo.msecnd.net/vhd/IEKitV1_Final/VirtualBox/Linux/IE6_XP/IE6.WinXP.For.LinuxVirtualBox.sfx

1. After the download of all files for a set is complete, give the SFX file execute permission by typing chmod +x filename.sfx at the
   terminal.

   
   



2. Execute the SFX executable from the terminal with ./filename.sfx to expand the virtual machine to the current directory.

   
   

See also:

• Making Internet Explorer Testing Easier with new IE VMs - Rey Bango


• Free Official MSIE VM's for Linux and Mac | Hacker News